Start-up Divitas touts answer for VoWLAN/cellular convergence

Network World profiles start-up Divitas Networks, which "launched technology for tying together corporate wireless LANs, cellular networks and Wi-Fi hot spots as one mobile voice and data network."

The company "makes an appliance that does many things: VoIP call control; WLAN roaming, handoff management and security; VPN termination; and XML data delivery. The product is intended to let enterprise users with dual-mode voice-over-WLAN(VoWi-Fi) and cellular handsets, or handheld devices access a corporate VoIP and data network from anywhere."

The article looks at the technology as well as the competition for the company. Craig Mathias at Farpoint Group said, "This is going to be a huge, huge market. This is a whole new industry, and very much the future of wireless."

Mathias estimated "there are about 25 vendors and carriers building products, "from start-ups like Divitas, to big companies like Avaya," that will converge cellular and WLAN voice technology." He added, "most enterprises are completely unaware that there's lots of sensitive data sitting on devices they have no control over. Big companies that have corporate secrets all over the place on unsecured cell phones have to figure out how to manage that."